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People Want Higher Taxes. For You, Not them.

So the other day* Obama claimed the other day the 80% of America wanted higher taxes? Um, right. OK lets pretend this is true. How many of those people want higher taxes for themselves? I’m going to go with a lot less than 80%, there are people out there that want higher taxes but for other people or on things they don’t use but I doubt anywhere close to 80% that Obama claims want higher taxes for themselves (maybe 3%). It’s always easy to get support for taxing the crap out of someone else, the rich (whatever someone’s personal idea of who is rich), corporations and smokers are always easy targets but tell people that you are going to make say the 50% of the public that doesn’t pay income tax or try to tax a union members benefits package and suddenly the idea of taxes is a horrible thing and you are a horrible person for mentioning it. See almost no one wants to pay higher taxes since everyone wants to keep as much of their money as they can but there are a lot of people out there that have no problem with making other people pay higher taxes because really “fuck them I want my benefits but don’t really want to pay for it”. See people look at all the crap the government gives away and say “Hey free shit gimme, gimme, gimme” and either don’t know that nothing is or can be free or frankly don’t care because they honestly believe they shouldn’t have to work for or take care of themselves, and that’s just sad. They say the rich are greedy and that might be true but people are greedy when they’re poor too so it’s really just hypocrisy and class warfare rather than a real statement of some great truth. You want truth. People can be greedy. there is your truth. No qualifiers just that one sentence. People can also be nice, heroic, cowardly, deceitful, attractive, ugly, loving, hateful and short. Once again it’s truth because people can be all of those and some people can be many of those together since people can be contradictory. It’s not about how much money you have that makes you something it’s about what you do with your life. Yes life can be easier if you have money but even money doesn’t always make life easy but that is another rant.

There are a lot of people out there that think the government is a charity organization and expect people (usually other people) to pay for that. That’s wrong the government isn’t a charity organization and forcing other people to pay for you pet projects or your causes isn’t charity. What people who want higher taxes really want is to redistribute other people wealth, and I really do mean other people’s since if they really wanted more money to go to this or that they could take out their checkbook and hold off on that new Blu-Ray player or iPad. But no we don’t want that we want other people to pay, hell a lot of people as I already said don’t even want to pay for their own stuff and want to make other do it, that’s why you have people calling cell phones, vacations and internet access civil rights that the government should pay for (or in other words taxes payers).

I know Obama once said he actually believes his own bullshit but he doesn’t really believe this “80% of people want higher taxes” bullshit does he? I might buy it if he had said 45% of the US populations want’s higher taxes and 97% of those people want higher taxes for other people. Even if somehow this 80% number was true what are the reasons for this number? Remember kids statistics can lie if you don’t know the reason(s) behind the numbers.

I’ll say it like this if you want higher taxes for other people but not yourself, fuck you. If you want higher taxes for other people and don’t pay income tax at all, fuck yourself twice.

*FYI usually when I say “the other day” it means anywhere from a week to 3 years ago just in case anyone wanted to complain this was from a couple of months ago. That and I started this rant then but didn’t get back to it till now.